Seeking less lore-crushing.

[ooranak]

I received this little "gem" in my inbox yesterday on DeviantArt, and was sad to say I immediately recognized what it was. This guy's been running around all over the internet posting his self-insert fanfiction for some time now, and I figure, the way he goes on about it he wants this "work" to have exposure, so I'm sharing with you all.

Comments

[jadedissola]

Sorelstrasz

...but I thought he was a black dragon? Or is this someone else?

[ooranak]

Nope. He's a black dragon. THAT WAS ONCE HUMAN.

Idefk why he has the red-drake naming conventions.

[jadedissola]

Yeah, the naming convention is where I'm confused. I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect this is his way of showing how welcoming the red dragonflight was of Sorel and they made him part of their flight. I'm sure Alexstrasza was right behind that idea....

[ooranak]

To hear the story, the Mother of them all totes adores Sorel. :D?

The whole thing makes my head hurt. I'm all for that underdog, not like the rest of them, shtick, but this is pretty ridiculous to try and suspend disbelief about.

It has to be pretty darn good and with, you know, stuff like character building, to be even close to convincing.

This has none of that, from what I managed to stomach reading.

[blazecheetah]

and then he was eaten by Sabellian the end.

[ooranak]

Nomnomnom!

[arachnogeek]

We're not publishing it, since that would require a ton of calls to Blizzard to confirm copyright and sales and such, but we're just gonna see if we can make a book form of it. If we can do that and it's really cheap, I'm gonna see if I can sell a few copies to my friends. The only thing they'll be paying for is the cost to make it.

I'm pretty sure if Blizz wanted to they could still get pissed over the sale of a book infringing on their rights, regardless of price. I could be wrong, though.

That aside, though... This looks like a fascinating demonstration of cranial-rectal insertion. Where's my popcorn...?

[ooranak]

Yeah as far as I could recall, doing that stuff is technically illegal, but most companies don't bother. Still. The amount of arrogance and pride going into this is pretty amusing.

If I bring butter and napkins, can I have some popcorn too?

[arachnogeek]

That and I realize he mentioned contacting Blizzard about copyright and sales, but neglected that the novels do, in fact, undergo quality control, too. I think they'd notice some of the stuff in there and go, "errrrno."

*shares popcorn*

[corpseknight]

"quality" "control"

*heaves The Shattering into the sun, cries into soup*

[_dante_sparda_]

I can totally see him doing a collaboration with Knaak. The only thing is that they'd argue endlessly over whose self-insert Mar(t)y S(t)u/e should be more prominent, and then neither of them would ever get any writing done.

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:D!!

[blazecheetah]

DING DING DING, WINNER

Quick someone call Knaak

[corpseknight]

In a shear panic, Sorel used all his strength to free himself.

shear panic

garden shears?